Every meal plan ends in a shopping list.
RoloMeal writes yours after one question.
Plan the week from meals you actually cook. Then walk every ingredient once — Have, Need, Skip — and what’s left becomes a shopping list in the order you walk the store.
Free to use, with saved menus, cook mode and your whole recipe collection. Plus covers your household and adds store routing and AI every month.
You can use RoloMeal in your browser today — everything works here.
How it works
Three steps, and only one of them is new.
Planning and shopping you already know. It is the step in the middle that changes what ends up on the list.
- 1
Plan the week
Drag meals from your own library onto the days. Leftovers roll over. Nothing is invented for you.
- 2
Refine the ingredients
Every ingredient in the week, once: Have, Need or Skip. Staples arrive pre-answered.
- 3
Shop the list
What is left, grouped by the aisle you walk, so you cross the shop once.
The mechanism
Refine is the step in the middle.
A planner that never asks what is in your kitchen has exactly one honest option: put everything on the list. So you buy the third jar of cumin. You buy rice you already had. You buy parsley twice and throw both bunches away.
Refine takes the whole week’s ingredients and splits them in two. Staples — the things your pantry already knows about — arrive pre-marked Have, because they usually are. Fresh arrives asking. You tap down the list once: Have, Need, Skip. Cooking for eight instead of four? Adjust the quantity as you go.
Your answers stay put
Refine remembers what you said, for that week. Swap Thursday’s dinner on Wednesday night and the second pass only asks about Thursday.
Quantities, not guesses
Anything you need that has a quantity gets a stepper — ½×, 1×, 2×, 3×. Half a recipe of chilli, double the rice, and the list does the arithmetic.
It learns your pantry
Mark something Have and it becomes a staple there and then. Olive oil stops being a question: every week after, it starts pre-answered.
The list
One list, in the order you actually walk.
Produce, then bakery, deli, meat and seafood, dairy, frozen, pantry, beverages, snacks, household. The same route every supermarket lays out, so you cross the shop once instead of three times.
The same items regroup by meal, when you want to see what Thursday adds to the list. With Plus they also regroup by store, in the order you arranged your shops, so a week that spans two places is still one list.
Check things off as you go. Your progress is yours, on your own phone.
Every item knows its meals
Wondering why there are two onions on the list? Each item shows the meals it’s for, with the day and how much each one needs.
Change the plan, the list follows
Once a week is on your shopping list, swap a dinner or clear a day and the list offers the changes to make. You review them before anything moves, so nothing you added yourself disappears.
Shopping Mode · Plus
Your phone knows you’re at the shop.
Save the shops you actually use and RoloMeal watches for them in the background. Pull into the car park and the list is already open. Get home with three things still unchecked and it tells you before the week does.
It is geofences, not tracking: the app reacts to arriving at and leaving the places you chose, and never records where else you go.
Saved stores are part of Plus, so Shopping Mode is too.
Still on your list
You left Safeway with 3 items unchecked.
Bring it back
The meals you forgot you loved.
Every household cooks the same nine dinners into the ground and forgets the rest. RoloMeal watches what you have planned and quietly offers back the ones that have fallen off, with no lists to maintain and nothing to set up. Not in the mood? Snooze it. Done with it for good? Retire it, and it stops asking.
Your week, your way
The small things a weekly cook asks for.
Saved menus
Save a week you liked as a menu — “Taco week”, “Camping” — and put it on any week later, filling only the empty days or replacing the lot.
Cook mode
One step at a time, in large type. The screen stays on, and a time in a step becomes a timer you tap to start.
Nutrition estimates
Nutrition estimates per serving, labelled as estimates, with a running total for each day of the plan. A recipe that already lists its own figures keeps them.
Your first day of the week
Weeks start on the day you choose. Sunday shoppers plan Sunday to Saturday.
Household · Plus
One Plus for the whole household.
Mark a group as your household and your Plus covers everyone in it, up to six people including you. They plan from the same meals and shop from the same list, without each of them paying.
The monthly AI that comes with Plus is shared too: the household draws on one allowance.
Getting your meals in
Bring the recipes you already cook — all of them.
RoloMeal plans from your library, so the library matters. Paste a link and it reads the recipe straight off the page. Type one in, or keep the ones you have always cooked from memory.
Your whole collection, at once
Most recipe apps can export your recipe book as a file. Import it here in one go, free on every plan: titles, ingredients, steps, tags, favourites and nutrition come across.
A list of links
Coming from an app with no export? Paste the recipe links you saved, up to 200 at a time, and RoloMeal reads every page.
Leave any time
Export everything — recipes, plans, menus and lists — whenever you like, on every plan. Your recipes are never stuck here.
Switching from the apps you use today · Save recipes from any website in your browser
Cooking is hands-free too: the steps can be read aloud and driven from the lock screen, on every account.
AI handles the harder imports — a photograph of a cookbook page, a PDF, a site that will not parse — plus dictation, snap-an-ingredient and receipt scanning. Plus includes AI every month, and a new account gets a small taste to try it. Premium narration voices are part of Plus.
Nothing goes to an outside AI service until you allow it. What we send, and to whom.
Pricing
Free is genuinely usable.
The whole loop — meals, the weekly plan, Refine, the shopping list and the pantry — costs nothing and always will.
Free
Everything core.
- Your meal library
- The weekly plan and saved menus
- Refine
- The shopping list, by aisle or by meal
- Pantry and staples
- Recipe import from a link
- Import a whole collection from a recipe export file
- Cook mode, with steps read aloud
- Tags, favourites and search
- Export all your data, any time
Plus
$7/mo$49.99 a year.
- One subscription covers your household, up to 6 people
- Saved stores, and the list grouped by store
- Shopping Mode geofencing
- Nearest-store routing
- Premium narration voices
- AI every month: about 60 recipe imports
AI
Included with PlusOr pay as you go, on any plan.
- Import from a photo, a PDF, or a stubborn site
- Dictate a recipe
- Snap an ingredient for ideas
- Plan a week automatically
- Nutrition estimates per serving
- Receipt scanning
Plus’s monthly AI is used first. Need more, or on Free? Top up $1 or $5 — credits never expire.
Subscriptions bought in the iOS app are billed through your Apple ID and renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings.
Questions
Before you start.
Is RoloMeal free?
Yes. Your meals, the weekly plan, menus, Refine, the shopping list, the pantry, cook mode and importing a recipe collection cost nothing.
What needs Plus?
Sharing with your household (one Plus covers up to six people), saved stores and the list grouped by store, Shopping Mode, nearest-store routing, premium narration voices, and AI every month.
What uses AI credit?
Reading a recipe from a photo, a PDF or a page without recipe markup, dictation, snap an ingredient, receipt scanning, planning a week automatically, nutrition estimates, and new pictures for imported recipes. Plus includes a monthly allowance that is used first; anyone can top up, and credit never expires.
Does my data leave RoloMeal?
Nothing goes to an outside AI service until you allow AI data sharing, and then only what that feature needs is sent. The privacy policy names those services and everyone else we share data with, such as Apple for purchases.
Can I take my recipes with me?
Yes. Export everything, on every plan, any time: a spreadsheet of your recipes, or one file with your recipes, plans, menus and lists.
Where can I use it?
In your browser today, on the same account as the iPhone app, which is coming soon to the App Store.
Stop writing the list twice.
Plan a week, answer the question once, and walk the shop in one pass.
You can use RoloMeal in your browser today — everything works here.